Jess Lister

I am once again venturing to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference - if you will also be in the North West for the foreseeable and would like to catch up, let me know!

24.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some great shout outs here for @wjyates72.bsky.social's work on the student experience earlier in the year - and an important update from the HEPI team on just how far students are having to make their money stretch!

12.08.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what the sector should be worried about. Not just that it’s a half formed idea with no real clue on elasticity of demand, but that - like the apprenticeship levy - a decent chunk of it gets hoovered up and spent elsewhere by the man from the ministry

24.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

University looks like ‘bad bet’ to teenagers in ‘cold spots’ Doncaster focus groups find widespread scepticism that cost of a degree will be outweighed by career benefits

Interesting @upp-foundation.bsky.social study using focus groups to find out why young people in one HE 'cold spot' - Doncaster - are reluctant to consider university as a post-18 option www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

22.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New research shows that residents of higher education ‘cold spots’ remain put off by the cost of going to university - UPP Foundation The cost of higher education is seen as having a poor payoff in areas with few graduate jobs, and universities, colleges and schools are not doing enough to persuade young people from cold spots to in...

New report today answering the question: why do so few young people in Doncaster go to university? upp-foundation.org/new-research...

22.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Student visa crackdown won’t bring political victory, Labour told Universities mount fightback against further restrictions on international students, emphasising their role in growing the economy and lack of public support for new measures

“There is political risk in not doing anything about net migration, but also in damaging local economies,” says @jesslister.bsky.social. “International students can feel like low hanging fruit, but the economic consequences of that could be a lot deeper.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

09.05.2025 10:01 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

International university students Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot again.

Impossible to improve on this piece on what the UK should, and shouldn't do, on international students by @timleunig.bsky.social:

06.05.2025 11:57 — 👍 39    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 0

New analysis from Public First in the Observer this weekend ahead of another round of rows between DfE and Home Office about international students. International education is the single largest export industry in 26 constituencies, and top three in 102....

05.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Some really cool new polling insights into geographical and Ofsted-rating discrepancies in teachers' expectations of school leavers. Read all about it and more in our new 'WP state of the nation' piece with the UPP Foundation: upp-foundation.org/wp-content/u...

03.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New polling from us puts universities at the bottom of the education priority list ahead of the spending review

17.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3

Over the summer we talked a lot about how the system (particularly the OfS and to a lesser extent the DfE) didn't have capacity to deal with multiple provider failures occurring simultaneously...

03.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0